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Suit Says Nicholson Battered 2 Women

November 18, 1996

LOS ANGELES — Jack Nicholson has been named in an assault-and-battery lawsuit filed Nov. 8 by a woman in Los Angeles. According to Entertainment Weekly, the suit said Nicholson invited two women to his Mulholland Drive home Oct. 12 and agreed to pay each woman $1,000 for sex but afterward allegedly refused to pay and became violent. His agent had no comment.